One of the biggest announcements to come from the G7 summit was that the leaders have pledged to donate a billion Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries within the next year. 

Many were disappointed with this number as one billion doses are not enough to afford protection to everyone in these poorer nations.

In fact, campaigners have said that 11 billion doses are needed to end the pandemic which has already claimed nearly four million lives and severely disrupted economies and industries around the globe. 

The vaccines that will be supplied by the G7 leaders will be issued directly and through the World Health Organization's Covax scheme.

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The G7 summit began with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that the G7 wanted to "drive a global Green Industrial Revolution to transform the way we live".

The leaders committed to nearly halve their carbon emissions by 2030. They also pledged to phase out the use of unabated coal as soon as possible. Unabated coal is a fuel that produces emissions that do not go through any sort of filtering. 

The group also promised to end most government support for the fossil fuel sector. They will also be phasing out petrol and diesel cars in the coming years and have dedicated USD$2 billion in order to achieve this. 

Ultimately, the goal is to transition most of the world to wind, solar and other types of energy that does not produce harmful carbon dioxide emissions.

Despite the agreements the leaders came up with to slow down climate change, they could not agree on a date by which they would stop burning coal. 

The burning of coal is one of the biggest contributors to global warming and while they did promise to stop all international funding for coal projects that do not use technology to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions by 2022, there was no firm date set which disappointed many. 

“It’s very disappointing,” said Jennifer Morgan who is the executive director of Greenpeace International. “This was a moment when the G7 could have shown historic leadership, and instead they left a massive void.”

During the G7 meeting, the leaders heavily discussed how they would begin to counter China's growing economic and security influence. China has never been a member of the G7 despite having a large economy and the world's largest population.

Ahead of the meeting, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London said: “The days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone”.

During the meeting, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken told his Chinese counterpart over a phone call that the US would be actively opposing the genocide and ethnic cleansing that is currently occurring against Muslims in Xinjiang. 

Currently, the G7 has created plans to offer nations billions of dollars so that they can cease relying on Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.

However, it is important to remember that without China's support, important plans and goals of the G7 summit, particularly those regarding climate change, might not be able to happen. 

"Ganging up, pursuing bloc politics and forming small cliques are unpopular and doomed to fail," the spokesman said.

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